Home Network.. Am I on the right track?

Thanks for the advice. I will see if I have enough cable to drop them down in the panel. As far as networking,do I have enough infrastructure? I finished all the cable pulls a few minutes ago. From the short research I did, I pulled what was recommended without going overboard.

I'm doing the same thing (house flooded as well). The difference with my set up is that I'm running 2 cat6 per room, except 4 in the living room because I am keeping my router in the living room; it's a more centralized location that allows the signal to reach the front and back yard. I'm likely going to subscribe to PS Vue and put a Fire TV in each room. Want to leave opportunity for other devices like consoles and PCs. If there's an option to go wired or wireless for a device, I'll choose wired most of the time. Of course, you can add a switch at each port, but I just wanted to make it as clean as possible. I'm running the coax mostly for the sake of future homeowners.

Still haven't punched anything down, though. So much other work to do, not ready to take on the tedium of punching down 24 cable ends.

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In 5 years, wireless will be good enough to forget about your cat6 cabling. Im not sure id bother. Even today with a decent Wireless ac router and some dual band access points you can really scale out and handle all the streaming at once.

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100% disagree with this advice. If you don't run cable to every room when you have the chance, you will hate yourself later.

Best thing I ever did was prewire my entire house with Cat6 when they were building it...and had it terminated in the coat closet where I have the router/modem/access. I'll never have another house without network access in every room.

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The future has no wires

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Yes it does, at least for a few decades. It will be a long time before we can transmit power efficiently, so we might as well use the wires for data considering the numerous advantages.

Wired where possible, wireless where necessary.